Social-environmental supports sustain behavior change that motivation alone cannot

Evidence

Motivating people to change has limited value if they have no access to appropriate resources and environmental supports for realizing those changes. Enlisting or creating environmental supports expands and sustains the changes promoted by the serial dramas. The dramatic productions are designed to operate via two pathways, first by informing, enabling, motivating, and guiding viewers. However, people also are socially situated in interpersonal networks (Bandura, 2006a; Rogers & Kincaid, 1981). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2836 (#expands, via linked claim)

The E→P→R formula provides a convenient way of visualizing the fallacy in the claim that behavior is so much a function of environments that individuals’ predispositions need not be studied (reservation two). In fact, environments are always mediated by the individuals on whom they act; environments cannot shape behavior directly, and much politically important action is not reactive to immediate stimuli. Indeed, the capacity to be proactive (Murray, 1968) and transcend existing perceptions of what the environment dictates is at the core of effective leadership. — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1137 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Resilience forms a subject between biology and social context — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 3798; Effective prevention requires coordinated interventions across multiple social levels — Ryan Andrew Brown, Todd C. Helmus, Rajeev Ramchand, Alina I. Palimaru, Sarah Weilant, Ashley L. Rhoades, and Liisa Hiatt (RAND Corporation), Violent Extremism in America:…, 116; Individual motivation alone cannot sustain change without environmental and social support — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2836 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Individual motivation alone cannot sustain change without environmental and social support #expands (0.95) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2836
• Environments influence behavior only through individual mediation. #complicates (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 1137